Extractions: "The more crap you believe, the better off you are" CHARLES BUKOWSKI click here to hear him(G rated) l click here to hear him again(pg-13) now converted into Real Audio NEW! A not so good night in the san Pedro of the World - from Graey climax from Tyson Sealock Bukowski reads his poems - updated ! Buk on oral sex- a big hit on this page Louis Ferdinand Celine. As an Introduction to Buk, I recommend "Run with the Hunted: A charles Bukowski reader, which can be ordered here, along with many of his other works. Biography - from the liner notes of "Hostage" Black Sparrow/City Lights Short Biographies- what it says. Other recommended authors, influences- with samples! Letters - from "Screams from the balcony " Prose/Bibliography- Here's where you'll find samples from his prose Short Stories - a couple. Poetry- I try to type 'em out as often as I can. updated! Turkish Poems thanks to those who submitted, whose names I have lost Story by Linda King Pictures- you know, various stuff Audio/ Videography what's out there, incomplete

Untitled Charles Bukowski took American literature away from the critics and the academics and gave it back to the peoples. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jayd/buktro.htm

Extractions: By now the story is all too familiar: a writer comes along, dissatisfied with the status quo of writing, its conventions and models, and yet yearns to communicate his vision of a reality ignored by all those before him. He shocks the literary establishment with his aliterary style and his blunt language, his eagerness to "make it new," as Ezra Pound would say. He brings the American language alive on the page, the way it is spoken by the average American, and thereby delights readers who have long been disenchanted by literature's antiseptic content and alienating austerity. Charles Bukowski's career is a paradigm of the scenario outlined above. He thus joins some illustrious company, like Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Allen Ginsbergall now considered major figures in American literature, and all either ignored or denounced early on by the literary establishment. But if an author's popularity and influence outside of the New York publishing houses and the departments of English is the yardstick, then Charles Bukowski will also become an unavoidable part of any discussion of post-war American literature.

The Beat Page - Charles Bukowski biography including photos and four poems.Category Arts Literature Authors B Bukowski, CharlesCharles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and wasfirst published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/bukowski.html

Extractions: Young in New Orleans Other Writers: Richard Brautigan William S. Burroughs Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Robert Creeley Diane di Prima Robert Duncan William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg John Clellon Holmes LeRoi Jones Bob Kaufman Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Philip Lamantia Denise Levertov Michael McClure Frank O'Hara Peter Orlovsky Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Rexroth Gary Snyder Anne Waldman Lew Welch Philip Whalen William Carlos Williams PHOTO GALLERY Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing for the world of work and bars, not publishing, not writing, so the myth goes, for nearly twenty years. Ten of those years were spent roaming from odd job to odd roominghouse from the East coast to the West. The other ten years, Bukowski worked for the United States Postal Service in Los Angeles, a job that took no effort except for the strength to show up and the patience to perform mindless operations. During that time, his life bordered on insanity and death, two prevalent themes in his writing. According to his own myth making, Bukowski returned to writing the day that he quit the Postal Service, but his bibliography shows that indeed, he had been publishing several years before that. Bukowksi's first generally recognized publication date is in the 1960s, yet citations from the early 60s exist in Sanford Dorbin's early bibliography, and The Roominghouse Madrigals prints poems from the late 40s.

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Charles Bukowski Text of this poem is followed by links to other resources devoted to the poet, including biographies, bibliographies, and essays. charles bukowski (19201994). "question and answer" http://www.levity.com/corduroy/bukowski.htm

Extractions: Charles Bukowski "question and answer" he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, smiling, thinking of all the letters he had received telling him that the way he lived and wrote about that it had kept them going when all seemed truly hopeless. putting the blade on the table, he flicked it with a finger and it whirled in a flashing circle under the light. who the hell is going to save me? he thought. as the knife stopped spinning the answer came: you're going to have to save yourself. still smiling, a: he lit a cigarette b: he poured another drink c: gave the blade another spin. from The Last Night of the Earth Poems